Mihael Hategan
Guest at Argonne National Lab
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMihael Hategan is a seasoned software engineer with 19 years of experience building distributed systems, scientific computing tooling, and web applications, currently based at Argonne National Lab in Davis, California. His career blends academic rigor—holding a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics and an MS in Physics from UC Davis—with long-term engineering roles at the University of Chicago and industry work as a senior systems engineer. He contributes to open-source infrastructure like Spack, extending its Python package support for scientific workflows and dependency management. Comfortable across backend development, grids/portals, and concurrent programming, he has a track record of translating research requirements into robust, reproducible software. Notably, his background in particle physics gives him a pragmatic edge when designing systems for complex, computation-heavy domains.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Physics, Master’s Degree, Physics at University of California, DavisBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBS/BE, Computer Science/Engineering, BS/BE, Computer Science/Engineering at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara
Github Skills (23)
slurm10
package-management10
python10
cluster-computing10
bash10
hpc10
hpcc10
package-manager-tool10
parallel-processing10
parallel-computing10
error-handling10
build-tools10
package-manager10
devops10
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Mihael primarily contributed to the development of new Python packages within the Spack package manager. Their work involved creating package definitions for various Python libraries, including globus-sdk, sqlalchemy-stubs, typeguard, pytest-random-order, and parsl. These contributions demonstrate a focus on extending the capabilities of the Spack package manager to support a wider range of scientific computing and Python-based tools. The user also added and updated versions of dependencies used by the packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
ExaWorks/psij-python
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:233 reviews, 590 commits, 405 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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